Day 2 Updates
Last update 8pm
9:00AM We got back into the PICU about an hr ago after getting one last night of good sleep since minimally one of us needs to be with him overnight when he's moved to the normal peds floor. As you can see by the picture his swelling is up some, but he's still able to see somewhat. Mostly out of his left eye. The swelling will probably peak sometime tonight, but so far it doesn't seem as bad as we remember. Famous last words, right? Right now he's fairly lucid, but still very very tired. He's been talking and answering questions. He asked for his new Thomas pillow pet his teacher Miss Brittany got him on tuesday and we're currently watching the original Love Bug movie which he absolutely loves. His A-line (arterial line) was taken out at shift change this morning and we're starting clear fluids and should be moving to the floor as soon as Dr. F swings by to write up the orders if all looks good to him and so long if there's a bed available.
11:30 AM We've moved to the normal floor. He's got a fever of 102 right now but he still wanted a wagon ride around the new floor. Unfortunately the playroom is closed all weekend long so we'll have to bring in some of his toys to get him active and the fluid moving in his head. He's still swelling up, but managing well. If we keep getting him up and around every so often it'll help the fluid level remain lower than if he was just laying in bed all day. He's off all IV fluids now but he's still not super keen on drinking clear fluids yet and we haven't tried solids at all yet. My mom flew in from Florida and is hanging out in the room with us. Its nice to have a familiar face around and we appreciate the company.
3:30 PM Isaiah is being his stubborn old self and not really eating or drinking anything. We've forced a little juice and gatorade but not very much Swelling is still going up. His right eye is just about sealed shut, but he keeps a good sliver open on his left eye to watch Curious George. We've gone on a number of wagon rides around the floor and found a number of fun things. There's a Sorcerer Mickey Statue, A large set of Alvin, Simon and Theodore as well as a great painting with both Thomas and a bunch of the Chuggington trains. We had to stop and name them all. Other than that, not much to report. Just trying to get him to drink more so we can maybe get out of the hospital tomorrow.
8:00 PM So things could be going better and they could be going worse. We were able to get him to drink a bunch of Gatorade, and then shortly after 6 when we started trying to feed him some solids, he threw it all up. Since then we've maybe gotten 4 grapes into him and he won't touch anything to drink. After his stomach calmed we went for a wagon ride around the unit again and got him to do some walking just to keep him somewhat active. We must've done too good of a job because he was out like a light before we made it back to the room in the wagon. he's been asleep since 7 and it's making us have a hard time telling if his eyes are fulled swelled shut or he's just sleeping. They were close either way as he was tipping his head to extreme angles just to see out the slit he had left his left eye. His fever of earlier today is back down under 100 and other than the vomit and not wanting to take in any fluids he's doing good.
Both Rachel and I are probably staying over in the room tonight since we have a 'nice' double bed pull out in the room. It's big for hospital standards but extremely uncomfortable. I'm so glad we went back to the hotel last night because today was almost as exhausting as yesterday was. That's it for tonight.
11:30 AM We've moved to the normal floor. He's got a fever of 102 right now but he still wanted a wagon ride around the new floor. Unfortunately the playroom is closed all weekend long so we'll have to bring in some of his toys to get him active and the fluid moving in his head. He's still swelling up, but managing well. If we keep getting him up and around every so often it'll help the fluid level remain lower than if he was just laying in bed all day. He's off all IV fluids now but he's still not super keen on drinking clear fluids yet and we haven't tried solids at all yet. My mom flew in from Florida and is hanging out in the room with us. Its nice to have a familiar face around and we appreciate the company.
3:30 PM Isaiah is being his stubborn old self and not really eating or drinking anything. We've forced a little juice and gatorade but not very much Swelling is still going up. His right eye is just about sealed shut, but he keeps a good sliver open on his left eye to watch Curious George. We've gone on a number of wagon rides around the floor and found a number of fun things. There's a Sorcerer Mickey Statue, A large set of Alvin, Simon and Theodore as well as a great painting with both Thomas and a bunch of the Chuggington trains. We had to stop and name them all. Other than that, not much to report. Just trying to get him to drink more so we can maybe get out of the hospital tomorrow.
8:00 PM So things could be going better and they could be going worse. We were able to get him to drink a bunch of Gatorade, and then shortly after 6 when we started trying to feed him some solids, he threw it all up. Since then we've maybe gotten 4 grapes into him and he won't touch anything to drink. After his stomach calmed we went for a wagon ride around the unit again and got him to do some walking just to keep him somewhat active. We must've done too good of a job because he was out like a light before we made it back to the room in the wagon. he's been asleep since 7 and it's making us have a hard time telling if his eyes are fulled swelled shut or he's just sleeping. They were close either way as he was tipping his head to extreme angles just to see out the slit he had left his left eye. His fever of earlier today is back down under 100 and other than the vomit and not wanting to take in any fluids he's doing good.
Both Rachel and I are probably staying over in the room tonight since we have a 'nice' double bed pull out in the room. It's big for hospital standards but extremely uncomfortable. I'm so glad we went back to the hotel last night because today was almost as exhausting as yesterday was. That's it for tonight.
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